Price ranges for shipping a car to and from Boston, MA, plus nearby terminals and common routes.
Key facts
How vehicles move
By truck; ports and islands may need a separate sea or rail service
Population
672,973
Metro
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
As of 1 July 2025. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, 1 July 2025
Local notes
A campus in this city can limit where a car-carrier truck stops. The driver often meets you off campus.
Common routes from Boston. Sedan or compact car.
Route
Open transport
Enclosed transport
Phoenix, AZ
$1,132–$1,726
$1,699–$2,588
Los Angeles, CA
$1,073–$1,635
$1,609–$2,453
Riverside, CA
$1,064–$1,621
$1,595–$2,431
San Diego, CA
$1,068–$1,627
$1,601–$2,441
San Francisco, CA
$1,096–$1,671
$1,644–$2,506
As of 2026-11-09. RideShipper estimate, updated 2026-11-09, based on 3,588 prices that customers reported paying in MoveAdvisor reviews, adjusted for U.S. diesel at $6.13 a gallon for that week (U.S. Energy Information Administration). In testing, the typical difference between an estimate and a reported price was about 20% of the estimate. This is an estimate, not a quote: the carrier sets the price. No pickup date was supplied, so this estimate uses November 2026. Reported prices on seasonal routes to and from Florida and Arizona support different prices in each direction this month.
College Navigator reports Fall 2024 enrollment of 37,737 at Boston University, One Silber Way, Boston, and 32,553 at Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston. Neither figure is an out-of-state share. Northeastern's residence fields were not used here. Send the driver to the campus on the order. See Boston University and Northeastern University.
Long pairs and the neighboring inflows
The plan's city-route file includes Boston to Los Angeles, Boston to Miami, and Boston to Chicago. According to Census migration data, ACS 2024 estimates that 18,697 people now in Massachusetts had lived in New York a year earlier (margin of error 3,077). Rhode Island was 15,235 (margin of error 4,211) and California 13,810 (margin of error 2,866). These are people, not booked trucks. New York to Massachusetts is the largest inflow. Massachusetts to Florida is the winter direction in the plan.
Pickup
The city transportation page opened for this note did not state a terminal that replaces a street meeting. Worcester has no campus row that can be swapped in for these two Boston addresses. One Silber Way and 360 Huntington Avenue are not interchangeable. Agree on a meeting point the truck can reach. Registration is on the Massachusetts page.